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[[File:300px-Crapsack-world 5759.png|frame|No hope. No release. No end.]]
{{quote|''The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist fears it is true.''|'''James Branch Cabell''', ''The Silver Stallion'', [[Beam Me Up, Scotty|misattributed to]] '''Robert Oppenheimer''' }}
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This trope is also known as [[World Half Empty]], for the expression of pessimism being a state of seeing a glass with half the amount of water in it as being "Half empty". By definition, contrast [[A World Half Full]].
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